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In only its first year of existence, the Williamstown High School Archery team has earned a spot in the World Championships held in St. Louis June 28-30. At least 16 members of the team will be competing. The team is coached by Mike Walters and has 24 members.

Beginning this fall, a 24-year partnership between Grant County and Williamstown schools will come to an end.
Because of increased enrollment and a change in the funding formula, Grant County will begin to operate its own preschool program.

A vehicle believed stolen from Corinth ended up upside down in a creek May 6 along U.S. 42 in Verona.
Passing motorists contacted the Boone County Sheriff’s Office around 5 a.m. when they noticed the 1996 Ford Probe.
When deputies responded, they found the vehicle full of water and the driver’s door open.
A search in the car and the surrounding area did not lead police to locating the driver.
The sheriff’s department believes the car was headed westbound of U.S. 42 before leaving the road and ending up overturned in the creek.

The Northern Kentucky Health Department is one of the first in the nation and only one of 11 to receive recognition as a high-performing health department from the Public Health Accreditation Board.
Northern Kentucky Health Department, which includes Grant, Boone, Kenton and Campbell counties, as well as Three Rivers Health Department, composed of Owen, Pendleton, Gallatin and Carroll counties, and the Franklin County Health Department were the only three health departments in Kentucky to be accredited.

In Anna Sullinger’s culinary arts class, Grant County High School students are making a carrot cake. In Larry Butler’s agriculture class, students are getting down and dirty preparing plants for sale in the greenhouse.

In Brad Schadler’s electrical class, students are learning to work on a circuit. In the next room, other students are learning to weld, while in another classroom, other students are up to their elbows working on a car engine.

Darrell Link began his career in politics with an appointment to the Grant County Tourism Commission. He went on from there to be elected to the fiscal court as a magistrate, followed by a successful run for judge-executive in 1998.
He’s served on numerous boards and commissions and received awards for partnering with other agencies on programs, for being a good neighbor, an outstanding official and for his work in the community.

The one thing that Sarah Dills hated as a soccer player is the one thing that she’s fallen head over heels for.

Despite the aching muscles, painful blisters and frigid ice baths that she’s endured the past four months since she began training to run the 15th Annual Flying Pig Marathon on May 5 in Cincinnati, Dills knows the thrill of finishing the 26.2 mile marathon will be worth it.

With walking stick in hand, Raymond Spillman, the 2013 starter for the Derby Dash 5K race; strides through his memories as he strengthens his body at the Williamstown Cemetery. But, Spillman has not always walked his way to health.

Seventeen percent of Grant County residents live below the poverty level, roughly 7 percent higher than the average rate for Boone, Campbell and Kenton County.
Only 72 percent of Grant County residents are high school graduates, which is lower than the state average of 74 percent and much lower than rates in Boone (85 percent), Campbell (81 percent) and Kenton (82 percent) counties.
A solution to fixing these alarming statistics may be on the way.